How much revenue did Pacer make?

$219k–$589k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Pacer sell?

Q: How many copies did Pacer sell?

20k to 32k copies, based on its 803 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 20k–32k; $219k–$589k after Steam's cut $398k–$906k before Steam's cut; from 803 reviews (Mostly Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Pacer and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Pacer's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–7k

best case 206k (GRIP: Combat Racing)

Games like Pacer

A typical game among these

≈ 3k–7k copies

≈ $9k–$24k after Steam's cut

from ~129 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: GRIP: Combat Racing at ≈ 157k–255k copies, ≈ $1.3M–$3.5M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 111 reviews in their first month; the range was 17 to 339.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Racing (7 of 8) and Combat Racing (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Combat Racing + Futuristic, priced around $22. The breakout hits carry Futuristic + Indie + Fast-Paced; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2026, and 1 of the 8 shipped in the last two years.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 43 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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